Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to My trips to the cinema 2019 list
5 years, 1 month ago
Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to My trips to the cinema 2019 list
5 years, 1 month ago
Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to Cinema’s longest post-marketing movie delays list
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Trailer debut: September 7th 2017
Original release: November 24th 2017
New release: October 25th 2019
Difference: 701 days
Between trailer and release: 779 days
Reasons: As with Ballerina, this was among those originally set to be released by The Weinstein Comapny, but pulled off the schedule following Harvey Weinstein's abuse allegations. TWC under its new identity Lantern Entertainment agreed to sell distribution rights to 101 Films, leading to a US release at long last.
Benefits: Harvey got what he deserved, and so did director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, but only in that his own cut of the film opened in the US instead of Weinstein's (although the butchered cut opened in the UK) and was critiqued as a moderate improvement over the other cut.
Flaws: It was still nowhere near as financially successful as it might have been under a keener distributor.
5 years, 1 month ago
Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to My trips to the cinema 2019 list
5 years, 1 month ago
Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to My trips to the cinema 2019 list
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: November 20th
CINEMA: Curzon
LOCATION: Soho
NOTE: Mum was almost going to wait until it hit Prime, but upon discovering it starred not one but three of her favourite performers, and after having Driver’s performance in Marriage Story tempt her too much, she decided to stay, thus happily sitting through the Adam Driver double bill with me, in the same screen and the same seats.
5 years, 1 month ago
Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to My trips to the cinema 2019 list
5 years, 1 month ago
Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to My trips to the cinema 2019 list
5 years, 1 month ago
Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to Movies according to my dreams list
A similar film by Damien Chazelle was the basis of my dream, following two white lovers travelling across the smaller towns of China, surrounded by a cast of exuberant cartoon characters. All is well, the music is bopping, that is until these toons start brutally murdering the humans to claim the world as theirs.
5 years, 1 month ago
Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to My trips to the home list
UK RELEASE: November 15th 2019
HOW I SAW IT: Sky Cinema (Premiere)
WHEN I SAW IT: November 16th 2019
NOTE: My family does have Sky but our friends over the road do, and the night after they left on holiday I was given access to their home just to watch this legally.
5 years, 1 month ago
Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to My trips to the home list
5 years, 1 month ago
Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to Cinema’s longest post-marketing movie delays list
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Trailer debut: July 15th 2019
Original release: February 14th 2020
New release: September 18th 2020
Difference: 217 days
Between trailer and release: 432 days
Reasons: To make way for the extensive reshoots taking place in November 2019, because Fox/Disney thought that after The Golden Circle, the Kingsman franchise would feel more comfortable in the September slot, and most obviously to avoid being overshadowed by Birds of Prey and Sonic.
Benefits: With the increased hype for the Sonic movie following the redesign, it especially feels like a reasonable answer. In addition, a post-trailer delay from October to February (January in the UK) did not hurt the first Kingsman.
Flaws: The film already had two trailers put out and edited by Disney and an epic-scale poster featuring the whole primary cast, suggesting that Fox and Disney agreed it was a done deal. This is an embarrassing landmark for the film industry, to delay a film halfway through its journey from marketing to release. Fox’s management isn’t any less farcical under Disney.
5 years, 1 month ago
Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to My trips to the cinema 2019 list
SCREENING: Q&A (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee & Peter Del Vecho), Preview
DATE: November 15th
CINEMA: BFI
LOCATION: Southbank
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